2022/03/01 by Amitav Acharya · 10 citations
Social Sciences · #Agency (philosophy) #Dominance (genetics) #European union #International Relations and Foreign Policy #Law #Political science #Postcolonialism (international relations) #Social science #Sociology #Western culture #Western europe
paper · doi:10.1017/s1537592721003601
published in Perspectives on Politics 20(1), 265-270 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2022/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/21
During the past two decades, there have been growing calls for broadening the discipline of international relations (IR) by giving due recognition to the history, culture, ideas, and agency of non-Western states and societies. Several aspects of this trend are noteworthy. First, it originated from the growing dissatisfaction by non-Western scholars with the Western (US and European) dominance of the IR field, a dominance that obscures and marginalizes the past and recent contributions of other societies. As such, the primary voices challenging this dominance have been non-Western scholars, sometimes in collaboration with a few Western counterparts. These include not just scholars of postcolonialism and race, but also some working in the English School and constructivist and non-Western/post-Western traditions.